Right now, there are roughly 320,000 churches in the United States. If each one hosts just a single sermon every week, that means that there are around 16.6 million sermons every year in that context. Multiply that over the last 50 years, and you’re looking at more than 832 million sermons—nearly a billion sermons preached in America in half a century.
And now, just take a hard look at the state of Christianity in America: With that much preaching, we have to ask: why do we keep doing the same thing while expecting different results? If sermons alone could change the world, wouldn’t they have done so by now?
The truth is if the only tool you have is a hammer, then you will treat everything as though it’s a nail. I hate to tell you this friends— another sermon just ain’t going to fix it! It is non-discipleship that is literally killing us. If you spend the same time on discipling others that you do on sermon preparation, you would likely change the world. And yet still we press on with the same failed approach. It’s sheer madness. Repent!